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...most patients, a bout of flu means a few missed days of work or school. But for people 65 and over and for those who have chronic heart or respiratory problems, diabetes, asthma or weakened immune systems, the disease can easily be fatal. Less able to fend off infections, these individuals are more susceptible to bronchitis, pneumonia and, occasionally, kidney failure and heart attacks. In an average year, flu is a factor in about 20,000 deaths in the U.S. The majority of A-Shanghai victims have been elderly, and all 50 states have discovered outbreaks in nursing homes...
...Israelis), and of the 12,923 Soviet Jews who arrived last year, only 138 have settled there. Most immigrants prefer urban living and are not eager to expose themselves to the dangers of life on Israel's frontier. Even if they were willing to, there is a chronic shortage of housing. Of the 25,000 new apartments planned for immigrants to Israel in 1990 (expected to cost $1 billion), only a few hundred will be located in the occupied areas. One reason: Finance Minister Shimon Peres, the Labor Party leader, prepares the budget and does not share his Likud coalition...
...emergency program Erman cobbled is intended to stop the rush to convert australs into dollars and force down the prices of goods. To achieve that, the government has promised to end its frenetic minting of money to finance decades of chronic deficits; no more australs will be printed until the level of Argentina's hard-currency reserves rises. If that promise is kept, it would amount to a tight leash on the inflationary money supply...
...Crimson enters the race healthier than expected. With Ralph James separating a shoulder in practice December 11, Ron Mitchell suffering from chronic back spasms and Co-Captain Fred Schernecker missing the last two games with a knee injury, Harvard could have been playing the Big Green without any of its starting frontline...
Reporting in the New England Journal of Medicine, two separate teams of scientists found that treatment with the drug interferon halted destruction of liver cells in about half the patients with chronic hepatitis. A total of 207 people were studied by the two teams, one led by investigators at the University of Florida, the other at the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases...